Fifty years ago, on October 5, 1974, David Kunst completed the first verified circumnavigation of the globe on foot. Along ...

Neil Armstrong and Eugene Cernan are Purdue graduates who flew on Apollo 11 and 17, respectively. Mark Easley, who graduated ...

Sept. 29, Earth captured a new "mini-moon" called 2024 PT5. The bus-size asteroid is expected to orbit our planet for 57 days ...

Rather than forming from an ancient collision between Earth and another planet, the moon may have been snatched from another ...

With his death-defying stunt of jumping from space, Felix Baumgartner created several world records. This daredevil’s video ...

The collection contains more than 7,000 pages and took about two years to archive. The university hopes his writings will ...

But unlike other space-travel rock or pop or soul artists, Chris Martin isn’t lifting off into the Milky Way to escape our ...

There is only one way to experience lunar gravity while still on Earth, or rather a few thousand feet above its surface: on a ...

This time next year, NASA plans to send its first crewed mission to the moon in more than 50 years. NPR visited the facility ...

From cloud herdings to starling murmurations that send messages to a birdwatcher, these 22 speculative stories underline the ...